Job summary
- Main area
- Governance
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR1918-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colchester/ Ipswich
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Quality, Safety and Governance Lead Midwife *£2,000 Incentive*
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
This post attracts a recruitment incentive of £2000 pro rata (conditions apply)
Following the recent appointment of our deputy Director of Midwifery at ESNEFT, we are looking to appoint to the final key member of our Senior Leadership Team. We have a fantastic opportunity for Quality, Safety and Governance Lead Midwife at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our families receive the best quality and compassionate care. You will report to and work in collaboration with the Director of Midwifery (DOM) and with support from the wider Divisional Management team, along with the Governance lead Consultant Obstetricians on each site, you will ensure effective maternity governance systems focussed on patient safety.
You will provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects or quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity, gynaecology and paediatrics.
ESNEFT provides maternity services at Colchester, Ipswich and Clacton hospitals. We offer a range of consultant and midwifery-led services at all of our sites and facilitate the births of approximately 7,000 babies a year.
If you are a highly skilled midwifery leader, passionate about high quality care and want to develop your skills and knowledge further, then we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Lead on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and patient safety activity, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Patient Safety Team.
Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues and will work with the Divisional Clinical Governance Leads and Divisional Management Team to deliver on the requirements of this post. Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Department, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.
Be an expert clinical midwife, to ensure credibility in undertaking and the delivery of their role
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered midwife (current)
- Masters level education or equivalent experience.
- Post registration qualification with relevant Master’s degree or equivalent and or working towards that includes leadership in the areas of Quality Assurance, Governance, Audit and Quality Improvement
- Trained in Root Cause with ability to analyse aggregated management systems
- PSIRF training undertaken or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance
- Recognised Leadership/management qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working in a senior maternity management role / level and working within a key leadership role, within a complex acute organisation
- Expert midwifery clinical experience of working across all professional boundaries, can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge.
- Experience of working with multi professional staff groups
- Experience of risk management process, Incident investigations, and shared learning
- Evidence of ability to deliver training, and providing governance advice to clinicians and other senior managers
- Experience of drafting and developing policies and establishing compliance processes and procedures
- Good strategic level knowledge of quality improvement methodology and risk management procedures (
- Understanding of clinical effectiveness and audit procedures
- Extensive knowledge of patient safety, including human factors and serious incident methodology and management
- Experience of working within Patient Safety and Incident Review Framework
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementing change in clinical practice system wide
- Experience of working in risk and governance role across a Women’s and Children’s Division.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Price-Davey
- Job title
- Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
To arrange an informal visit or to request further information, please contact Anna Lamburne, [email protected], mobile: 07922 420402.
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